The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Planning
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Mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into development planning
This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.
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The challenges for the Indian forestry sector
This briefing highlights the key issues facing the Indian forestry system. It identifies major priorities and actions to help the Indian forestry system develop sustainably and meet future national needs.
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Manual for integrated district planning
This manual attempts to set out the systems and standard processes that could be followed for decentralised planning. It aims to provide guidance on how the considerable capacities of line departments and experts can from now on, subserve this process of empowered planning by local governance. This manual comprises two volumes.
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Planning for sustainable sanitation
This factsheet deals with the planning of sustainable sanitation for urban and peri-urban areas of the developing world and its importance for accelerated sanitation coverage by 2015. The United Nation
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Why planning?
Economic planning is a little like a chameleon; it can have different colours. While the Soviet government plans the activities of the socialist economy of the USSR, the Nazi party also used to plan the economic operations of a fascist Germany. Before advocating planning for the Indian economy, we should pause to inquire what is it that we are trying to recommend.
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Taking a holistic approach to planning and developing hydropower: lessons from two river basin case studies in India
Planning for hydropower development needs to evolve from a project-based engineering approach to a more holistic one
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Structural changes in horticulture sector in India: Retrospect and prospect for XIth Five Year Plan
The growth of agriculture is not commensurate with other sectors of the Indian economy.
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Futures trading is not pushing up inflation'
The debate on contribution of futures trading to inflation gathered momentum, with Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia saying such trading does not lead to higher prices of commodities. Ahluwalia's comments came two days after FM P Chidambaram hinted at a ban on futures trading in food articles as part of efforts to contain rising prices.
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Groundwater management and ownership
The conclusions of the recent report of the Planning Commission's expert group on groundwater management and ownership, from an earth-science perspective, are poorly informed and simplistic. The report is conspicuous in its failure to seek counsel from the nation's scientific, professional and public institutions that have expertise and interest in a wise utilisation of groundwater resources. Feb 16-22, 2008
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Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources
If the government is to be believed there is enough usable water in the country to meet projected demand until 2050. Stumped by this claim, scientists at iit Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New